Although external storage devices, such as flash drives, are commonly used in small businesses to transfer files between computers, many small businesses still use rewritable CDs because of their low ...

Back in August of last year, I wrote about QuickErase, a utility that makes it easy to erase rewriteable discs. (As their names imply, rewriteable discs—a.k.a., CD-RW and DVD-RW discs—can be reused, ...

Horror Story No. 37: The co-worker came into our office with a distraught look on his face. “I thought I had another disc, which I didn’t need, in my disc drive when I typed ERASE . . . ,” he said. As ...

In a recent study, a research team purchased roughly 100 hard disks off eBay and found half of them to contain sensitive information, including insurance records, biographical information about ...